European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes ghost of diem hovers As Thieu takes control monday october 30, 1967 Saigon a official Cus Tody of South Vietnam s frail new democracy will be take tuesday by a cautious soft spoken general hardly know outside the army two years ago.  temporary stands erected before Saigon s whitewashed for Mer French opera House Nguyen Van Thieu 44, will swear to serve the people protect the Constitution and do his Best As president. His term willbe for four years. The last Man to take the oath was dictatorial president Ngo Dinh diem overthrown  slain four years ago. Diem s ghost will be reflect Din the eyes of countless Viet namese watching Thieu who headed the current military regime As chief of state  reflecting that elections and constitutions do not always mean unacceptable government. Few presidents have faced the sceptical population that Thieu must contend with  a demo cratic manner or let the nation again lapse into political chaos. His election  september with Only one third of the votes against a Field of 10 civilian candidates put him  shaky ground. The vocal charges of fraud by some Defeated Candi dates Dlf not help. To succeed he must convince them that he has genuinely be come a civilian that he Millwork constitutionally and will meaningfully attack the nation social ills rampant official thievery and strangling bureaucracy. Toward this end Thieu has promised to name a civilian Premier. He also will limit the soldiers to three Cabinet posts  military  the background for the moment is his offer of a peace meeting with North Vietnam s to Chi Minh and a pause i bombing of the North if the communists display similar Good  but these Are the obvious problems. More Legal obstacles Lurk  the political  Foremost is the vice pres ident Nguyen Cao by 37, Theair Force commander who practically ran the country for two years As Premier Only to be Defeated by Thieu  the Strug Gle for military support  the presidential  by accepted second place with a show of patriotic motives to preserve military Unity he has barely spoken to Thieu since. During the Campaign their few appearances to Gether were painfully artificial. By recently told a visitor know that i am a pain  the neck to Thieu but Don t worry we will get  for his part Thieu said behave worked together for the past two years. We will continue to work  the first test is Likely to Bethe selection of the civilian Premier a Man who will be directly answerable to the pres ident As  France but who will have Day to Day Impact  sensitive areas of  likeliest candidate is Law yer Nguyen Van Loc plucked from relative obscurity by by to head the army people Council  advisory body named to add respectability to the old military regime. Although Loc was a by appointee he maintained relations with Thieu Dur ing the Many months Thieu Wasa background figure. Thieu faces the unusual Prospect of dealing with three legislative bodies the official House old name new face Winston Churchill,27-year-old grandson of the late British prime minister talks to voters  the Gorton District of Manchester where he is seeking election to parliament As a conservative candidate  to misday g special election. A photo vote conservatives vote for Winston Church  Nguyen Van Thieu and Senate and the unofficial but powerful generals who  one form or another will continue to meet. Under the Constitution Thieu will sit As commander  chief. He has Power to appoint the Mil itary province chiefs who Wield effective governmental Power inthe Countryside. This and his own military reputation for surviving should enable Thieu to contain the military barring break with by. The House and Senate May prove More difficult. Under the Constitution Thieu has Strong Powers but there Are also effective checks  paper against the threat of another dictator ship. The Senate is almost Hal Catholic which is Thieu s Reli Gion and the House is about 20per cent Catholic. They will be sympathetic to a Catholic presi Dent. The opposition lightning Rod Al most certainly will be elderly professor to Huu t u o a a trotskyite read out of the Viet namese communist party by Hochi Minh  the 1930s. The out spoken Tupong has lately Allied himself with the government s bitterest and possibly most threatening enemy the political Buddhist Monk t h i c h Tri Quang. Although his influence remain Strong  Northern provinces Tri Quang has been Able to get Only about 1,000 monks and nuns to hit the streets  Saigon  government has been handling him with kid gloves to avoid making martyrs. Yet Buddhist resentment at the pro portion of catholics  the government has the potential for serious trouble. Manchester England a remember the govern ment s broken promises the freckle faced Young Man admonished the voters  conservative vote for Winston  Spencer Churchill 27 year old grandson and namesake of Britain s great Warrior is campaigning hard to wrest the Manchester District of Gorton from the labor government Ata special parliamentary election thursday. He has a Tough fight  his hands  that predominantly working class District and he knows it. His Victory would bean important defeat for the labovites. He needs a shift of10.2 per cent of the votes from labor to tory to do it. The Gorton ballot is one of three thursday All classified As Safe seats for labor. Theother two Are at Leicester Southwest and at Hamilton i Scotland. They follow the two reverse suffered by the government earlier this fall at Cambridge and Walthamstow West. And they come when the labor gov can people computers correspond Bethlehem a. Upil e h i g h University has announced receipt of a $268,150grant from the National science foundation to investigate whether dialogue can be established Between Man and com Puter. The project at Lehigh will redirected by prof. Donald j. Hillman department of philos Ophy chairman and director of the school s Center for the  formation sciences. One of these Days the com Puter will be a Public Utility performing and providing Man Community services Hillman said. What we learn at Lehigh about the possibilities of Dia Logue Between Man and com Puter will hasten that  the profess9r explained that the computer  this Case is not one machine but a  can talk to each other Over Telephone lines As Well a respond to human commands. Ern ment s rating  the popular Ity polls is at its lowest ebb since its election to office three years ago. Thursday s results do no threaten the labor govern ment s commanding Lead i parliament but they will give some indication of the feeling inthe country toward prime min ister Harold Wilson s govern ment and its unpopular economic policies. The Sandy haired Churchill appears to be waging a personal War against the government  his campaigning. A Day spent with him canvassing from door to door at a news conference and addressing a rally showed him continuously hammering at the theme. Remember All those broke promises. Harold Wilson has never had it so Good with you Money. Vote conservative the party you can Trust the me you can depend  anti labor was his theme. His reply to questions  what poli cies he supports i will do my est. I make no promises like the other  Churchill was born oct. 10, 1940, at the height of Theattle of Britain at the Center of the nation s political Power Chequers the country residence of British prime  parents Are Randolph Churchill the late prime min ister s Only son and Pamela Only daughter of lord  was educated at Eton and took a degree  history a Christ Church College Oxford. He married Minnie d Erlanger daughter of a socially Promin ent banker and  have three children. Churchill makes no conscious attempt to use his name  campaigning he does t have to it s there. But campaigning  Denton Market sunday he seemed to move instinctively to shake hands with the Oldermen and women who might possibly remember his grand father More clearly than the younger voters. He never mentioned his four opponents but made Clear his Campaign is directed against Laberite Kenneth Marks 47 year old local High school Prin Cipal. He considers irrelevant to the Campaign 22-year-old Terry Lacey postgraduate student at Manchester University and the Liberal party candidate John Creasey 58-year-old author of thrillers who is campaigning As  Independent for  All party Alliance to govern Britain As Churchill s Grandfather did Dur ing world War hand the communist candidate 42-year-Oldvic Edd Isford. Thursday s polling is to fill the Gorton seat left vacant by the death of left Wing Labori Tekenni Zilliacus who had represented the District  Parlia ment since 1950. Zilliacus majority  the National elections March 31, 1966, was 8,308 votes. Young Winston has made number of mistakes  this his first Campaign for office like the first time he went out door to door canvassing  his Whit Jaguar car. 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